I just got back from the film, and yes, it sucked. Hard. (I'll post my review here tomorrow.) But please, do not take that as an indication of the quality of the novel. The book is, though fairly unoriginal, an excellent book, IMO. The movie omitts at least 80 percent of the novel, and the only person that does a good job acting is Jeromy Irons. (SPOILER ALERT) Sadly, Iron's Charecter, Brom, dies in the middle of the story, and from there the film falls apart. He was carrying the movie on his shoulder's, and the movie really starts sucking at that point. There is, from moment one of the movie, zero charecter development. It's sad, really. It was also only 100 minutes long. The book is 500 pages packed full of story.

I was hoping for this to be good. Irons did as I expected, giving an engaging and excellent preformence. Sadly, everything else fell far short of my expectations.

As I said earlier, I'll post my official review tomorrow. EDIT: I have the review done, but for certain legal issues, I'll have to wait until its posted on the site before posting it here. If it isn't posted on the site by my editor by tommorrow night, I'll go ahead and post it here.